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AN estimated 4,000 people have attended the Anzac Day dawn ceremony in Mackay.

The event was held at Jubilee Park, and former Mackay local and Royal Australian Navy Commodore Peter Quinn addressed the crowd as guest speaker.

He said dawn services were a humbling experience.

"I've participated in this dawn service on many occasions," Commodore Quinn said.

"Both as a naval cadet before I joined the Navy and then over the last couple of years, just reflecting on the sacrifice of all those men and women who served before us in the defence force and the many tens of thousands who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Commodore Quinn said this year was particularly important for Navy members, it being 100 years since the establishment of the first fleet of Royal Australian Navy ships.